Browse by Subject "Libraries and community"

Block, Carl E.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

This paper has two primary objectives. The first is to summarize
the results of a study of the general informational search behavior of
a sample of 350 low-income households in St. Louis in August 1968. 1
In this study ...

As e-government grows in scope and complexity, an increasing number of e-government services have surpassed the digital access and literacy of many members of the public. Often referred to as the digitally excluded, these ...

Dawood, Rosemary Smith(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

The public library in the United States is a community facility
dedicated to service to everyone. This broad concept of service,
however admirable, implies objectives which public librarians find
increasingly difficult ...

Drennan, Henry T.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

All of us utilize information in our lives. Librarians and
information scientists value it most highly since their lives are spent
in gathering, ordering, storing, and distributing it. A very few in
these professions ...

Long, Nicholas(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

During the past fifteen years a new kind of social service has
blossomed on the American scene. This service has come to be
known by a variety of names, the most popular of which is "information
and referral (I&R)." ...

Croneberger, Robert B., Jr.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

Francis Bacon said ''knowledge is power'
1 and hundreds of libraries
have these immortal words inscribed over their entrances.
Perhaps T. S. Eliot was closer to the truth when he wrote:
All our knowledge brings us ...

Sinclair, Dorothy(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

In some of our larger cities, public libraries are beginning to take
on, are being asked to take on, or are considering taking on the
functions of the neighborhood information center. To that fact we owe
this volume and ...

Luce, Robert J.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

In accord with the times, the Free Library of Philadelphia has for
the past several years been actively seeking and implementing new
ways to serve the inner city. As affluent America moves to the suburbs
and invisible ...

Kopecky, Frank J.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

As an attorney practicing in the legal services program of the
Office of Economic Opportunity (O.E.O.) for the last three years,!
have had the opportunity to view several O.E.O. neighborhood centers
in operation. In ...

Wiley, Norbert(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

American cities can be looked at in many ways, but one thing
everyone should be able to agree on is that they are in big trouble.
They are dilapidated, congested, trash-strewn, unsafe, rebellionprone,
poverty-stricken, ...

(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

Neither Brenda Dervin nor Robert Croneberger delivered the talks
they submitted prior to the conference, and which are included in this
volume. Their reactions to previous sessions motivated them to put
aside prepared ...

Sager, Donald J.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

Project Aurora was designed to test library service by caseload.
Caseload is a word that has social work connotations, but the intent
was only to employ a social work technique, not a social work philosophy,
to library ...

Dervin, Brenda(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

This paper gives a very brief overview of the kinds of activities
which are going on at Syracuse University which relate to information
referral projects. The School of Library Science is involved in a
multi -dimensional ...

Garvey, William(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

The United Steelworkers of America is a voluntary organization
that has deep ties in the communities in which its members either
work or live, or both. It is vital that such an organization maintains
lines of communication, ...

Welbourne, James(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)

This paper is about the training of urban information specialists ,
especially as it happened at the University of Maryland. There are
many stories on that whole procedure and I have chosen to talk from
one vantage ...